- Family life, Fiction, Fathers and sons, Christian life
In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world.
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Classical in form, earnest, intimate and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Katherine Paterson
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 168
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Scholastic INC., HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- Dutch, English
- ISBN
- 9780544104907
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Katherine Paterson is the author of more than 40 books, including 18 novels for children and young people. She has twice won the Newbery Medal, for Bridge to Terabithia in 1978 and Jacob Have I Loved in 1981. The Patersons have four grown children and seven grandchildren. Katherine currently resides in Vermont with her faithful dog, Pixie.
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